First American Trust is seeking a Senior Product Manager focused on Data Strategy to define and execute the roadmap for enterprise data platforms, governance models, and analytics capabilities to drive innovation, operational efficiency, and customer experience.
Requirements
- Proven ability to define and deliver data-centric products or platforms — data lakes, warehouses, governance tools, or APIs.
- Experience translating business goals into data strategies, aligning technology and process to drive measurable outcomes.
- Familiarity with modern data architectures and tools (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, AWS/GCP/Azure data stacks, Airflow, dbt).
- Understanding of data governance principles and compliance frameworks (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, GLBA).
- Strong analytical mindset with the ability to assess complex systems, data flows, and dependencies.
- Experience working in or with financial services, banking, or real estate data is highly desirable.
- 5–7 years of experience in product management, with at least 3 years focused on data platforms, analytics, or data strategy
Responsibilities
- Set the vision for data as a product — define how First American Trust collects, manages, and activates data to drive innovation, operational efficiency, and customer experience.
- Develop and maintain the data strategy roadmap, including key initiatives for data governance, data architecture, master data management, analytics enablement, and data quality.
- Collaborate with business, product, and engineering teams to understand data needs, align on shared goals, and deliver high-value data capabilities.
- Define and prioritize data requirements and use cases, ensuring alignment with enterprise goals and compliance standards (e.g., privacy, security, regulatory).
- Champion data governance practices by helping define data ownership models, metadata management, and stewardship processes.
- Deliver self-service data tools and dashboards that empower business stakeholders.
- Leverage insights to drive strategic decisions, ensuring that product and business teams have access to reliable, actionable data.
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field (e.g., Business, Computer Science, Data Science, or Information Systems) or equivalent experience.
- Excellent communication skills — able to bridge technical and non-technical teams with clarity and influence.
- Demonstrated ability to manage priorities, negotiate trade-offs, and deliver high-impact solutions in an agile environment.
- Passion for building data-driven cultures and enabling teams to make better decisions through trustworthy, accessible data.
- Ability to work in an environment that requires handling of confidential, proprietary or trade secret information belonging to First American or its customers
